Image: Giant Ape Media If you want to spend an hour and a quarter watching insultingly unrealistic characters spouting corny one-liners in improbable scenarios, then watch Bullet. Among mostly terrible acting, confusing and nauseating editing […]
Film | The Grand Budapest Hotel – a more melancholy Wes Anderson
Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures It is a criticism oft levelled against Wes Anderson that his films lack substance, forfeiting deeper meaning for stylistic choices and ultimately all blending into one. His films are not ‘revolutionary’, […]
Film | Non-Stop – an exciting thriller
Image: StudioCanal Some actors are remembered by a trademark line. Schwarzenegger’s is “I’ll be back.” Jack Nicholson’s is “You can’t handle the truth.” Liam Neeson’s is “We’re running out of time.” He seems to say […]
Film | Endless Love – just your typical teenage love story
Image: Universal Pictures Having previously watched Franco Zeffirelli’s 1981 film adaption of Scott Spencer’s romance novel ‘Endless Love’, I went to see the remake starring Gabriella Wilde and Alex Petyfer with an optimistic mindset. Remembering […]
Film | The Armstrong Lie – not Gibney's finest
Image: Jigsaw Pictures 3/5 Stars Alex Gibney is a world-renowned documentary filmmaker, famous for excellent Oscar-nominated documentaries such as Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side. His productions are […]
Film | Wes Anderson Q&A – "Cannes is a little bit hallucinatory"
Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures Ahead if the release of his new film The Grand Budapest Hotel we asked director Wes Anderson some of our nagging questions. Your films seem to be set in worlds just […]
Film | Stalingrad – all 3D and no depth
Video: Art Pictures Studio Stalingrad is not only the first Imax 3D film to ever have been released from Russia, but also the first domestic film in decades to beat Hollywood to becoming Russia’s top-grossing […]
Film | Nymphomaniac – an odyssey in two parts
Image: Zentropa Entertainments Being someone who hasn’t seen a Lars Von Trier film, my expectations going in to Nymphomaniac (Volumes 1 AND 2) were based purely on what I had heard about him and the […]
Film | The Book Thief – Nazi Germany, as told by death
Image: Fox 2000 Pictures Film adaptations of books are always a tricky one, especially when it comes to something like the Book Thief. It’s one of those much loved international best-sellers by Markus Zusak, and […]
Film | That Awkward Moment – Mindless fun
Image: Treehouse Pictures That Awkward Moment describes the point in a relationship when one party asks ‘so… where is this going?’ It’s the point when the couple either move forward, or move on. This film […]
Film | Her – The Best Original Screenplay winner is a five star treat
Video: Annapurna Pictures 5/5 Stars Who’s the first person you turn to in the morning? Your iPhone or someone with an actual pulse? Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a sensitive and impulsive writer. The opening shot […]
Film | Fritz Lang's Destiny – Hitchcock and Buñuel's gothic inspiration
As the British Film Institute’s Gothic Festival draws to an end, the Hyde Park Picture House played host to a live score of Fritz Lang’s Destiny. The film itself was born in the early 1920s […]